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The Genuine History of the Britons Asserted Against Mr. Macpherson
The Genuine History of the Britons Asserted Against Mr Macpherson Author:John Whitaker General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1773 Original Publisher: Printed for J. Murray Subjects: Ethnology Great Britain Ireland History / Ancient / General History / Europe / Great Britain History / Europe / Ireland Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Sco... more »ttish, Welsh Social Science / Anthropology / General Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural Social Science / Archaeology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. III. WE arc now come to that Important period of Mr. Macpherfon's Introduftion, for which all the reft was evidently written, for which we have feen all the annals of the ifland and continent diftorted from their true line, antient Hiftory garbled and contradifted, and Mr. Macpherfon's own affertions mangled and oppofed. We are now come to the Origin of the Scots. FROM p. 58 to 78, Mr, Macpherfon is engaged in a formal attack upon thofe pre- tenfions, which the Irifh have made to an original very diflerent from the other inhabitants of the Britifh ifles; in order to prove them and the Scots the defendants of Caledonians. And the attack is very eafy. Thofe fabricks of fiftion, which the Irifh credulity and patriotifm have been rearing for ages, all melt away before the ftrong beams of Hiftory and Criticifm. But indeed the romances are replete with fuch prodigies of folly, and are fo univerfally defpifed by the judicious on the continent and in our own ifland, that they were not worthy of a ferious refutation. And fuch a writer as Mr. Macpherfon, engaged in fuch a conteft, feems to me like the redoubtable Sir John in Shakefpear, attacking a dead man fword" in hand, and with one wound more in his thigh carrying him aw...« less